linux-ext4 - Re: block groups with no inode tables

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:09:05 -0500
From:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	cmm@...ibm.com
Cc:	coly li <colyli@...il.com>, "Jose R. Santos" <jrs@...ibm.com>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: block groups with no inode tables

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 11:59 -0400, Mingming Cao wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 12:40 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 01:30 +0800, coly li wrote:
> > > Hi, once we decide to do this, how about storing inode inside the
> > > directory ?
> > 
> > Which directory?
> I think Coly is refering to the idea of
> store-inode-inside-in-directory-file.
> 
> It's one way to implement the dynamic inode table allocation. With it
> you don't have system-wide inode tables anymore, but all inode
> structures are directly stored in the directory file.

Assuming you mean the parent directory?  An inode isn't tied to a
specific parent.

	ln dir1/file1 dir2/
	mv dir1/file1 dir3/
	rmdir dir1

What is happens to the inode?  I really don't think that the directory
is the right place to store an inode.
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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